Looking to step out and compete beyond your home fantasy football league? Mike Leone and guests cover a wide range of topics for serious players, including strategies for Best Ball, high-stakes formats like FFPC, NFFC, Dynasty Leagues, and more. This podcast is for players looking to go deeper -- and find their edge.
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Looking to step out and compete beyond your home fantasy football league? Mike Leone and guests cover a wide range of topics for serious players, including strategies for Best Ball, high-stakes formats like FFPC, NFFC, Dynasty Leagues, and more. This podcast is for players looking to go deeper -- and find their edge.
Mike Leone talks about his favorite fantasy football playoff contest, the FFPC Playoff Challenge:
-where the edge resides
-ownership recap
-sweating Jerick McKinnon
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Jan 19 2023
20mins
Mike Leone of Establish The Run gives you 5 tips to help you win the FFPC Playoff Challenge 2 and its $100k grand prize:
-get unique
-utilize ownership percentages from the initial contest
-leverage the market's overconfidence
-getting a little bit cute but not too cute
-don't overrate RBs
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Jan 19 2023
17mins
Jack Miller and Mike Leone of Establish the Run break down FFPC's Playoff Challenge, which has a $500,000 grand prize! Jack and Mike describe how to make teams with the most upside by understanding the rules of the contest:
-taking advantage of market overconfidence
-targeting WR variance and upside
-figuring out who to fade
-building teams based on different playoff bracket scenarios
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Jan 10 2023
24mins
Mike Leone of Establish the Run is joined by Davis Mattek to breakdown NFFC's unique postseason fantasy football contest:
-macro strategy
-how to play a specific bracket
-the best ways to leverage the field
-using swaps intelligently
Jan 10 2023
49mins
Justin Herzig joins Mike Leone of Establish the Run to break down Underdog Fantasy's $1 million playoff best ball contest - the Gauntlet! Justin describes how to make teams with the most upside by understanding the rules of the contest to best balance being live for the Super Bowl while propping up your odds of advancing to that stage in the first place.
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Dec 19 2022
38mins
Mike Leone and Adam Rauch of Establish the Run recap last week's GPP action from a game stacking perspective before turning their attention to this week's slate, identifying the best games to stack and why.
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Dec 15 2022
37mins
Mike Leone and Adam Rauch of Establish the Run recap last week's GPP action from a game stacking perspective before turning their attention to this week's slate, identifying the best games to stack and why.
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Dec 09 2022
33mins
Mike Leone and Adam Rauch of Establish the Run recap last week's GPP action from a game stacking perspective before turning their attention to this week's slate, identifying the best games to stack and why.
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Dec 01 2022
35mins
Mike Leone of Establish The Run adds context to his machine learning algorithm used to identify RBs and pass catchers who should score more points than they have in recent weeks. Last week, Zay Jones, DJ Moore, and Adam Thielen were identified and broke out. This week, Mike is looking at:
-Dalvin Cook
-Michael Gallup
-Mike Evans
and others!
Dec 01 2022
12mins
Mike Leone and Adam Rauch of Establish the Run recap last week's GPP action from a game stacking perspective before turning their attention to this week's slate, identifying the best games to stack and why.
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Nov 18 2022
36mins
Mike Leone of Establish The Run adds context to his machine learning algorithm used to identify RBs and pass catchers who should score more points than they have in recent weeks. Last week, Amon-Ra St. Brown, James Conner, and Gabe Davis were identified and broke out. This week, Mike is looking at:
-Josh Jacobs
-Courtland Sutton
-Kyle Pitts
and others!
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Nov 17 2022
14mins
Mike Leone of Establish The Run adds context to his machine learning algorithm used to identify RBs and pass catchers who should score more points than they have in recent weeks. Last couple of weeks, AJ Brown, Garrett Wilson, and Michael Carter were identified and broke out. This week, Mike is looking at:
-Amon-Ra St. Brown
-Kyle Pitts
-James Conner
and others!
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Nov 10 2022
16mins
Mike Leone and Adam Rauch of Establish the Run recap last week's GPP action from a game stacking perspective before turning their attention to this week's slate, identifying the best games to stack and why.
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Oct 27 2022
27mins
Mike Leone of Establish The Run adds context to his machine learning algorithm used to identify RBs and pass catchers who should score more points than they have in recent weeks. Last week, Aaron Jones, Christian Kirk, and Travis Etienne were identified and broke out. This week, Mike is looking at:
-Brian Robinson
-Chris Godwin
-AJ Brown
and others!
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Oct 27 2022
20mins
Mike Leone of Establish The Run adds context to his machine learning algorithm used to identify RBs and pass catchers who should score more points than they have in recent weeks. Last week, Ja'Marr Chase, Michael Pittman, and JuJu Smith-Schuster were identified and broke out. This week, Mike is looking at:
-Travis Etienne
-Romeo Doubs
-Amari Cooper
and others!
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Oct 21 2022
19mins
Mike Leone and Adam Rauch of Establish the Run recap last week's GPP action from a game stacking perspective before turning their attention to this week's slate, identifying the best games to stack and why.
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Oct 20 2022
28mins
Mike Leone of Establish The Run adds context to his machine learning algorithm used to identify RBs and pass catchers who should score more points than they have in recent weeks. Last week, Leonard Fournette, Alvin Kamara, and Dalvin Cook were identified and broke out. This week, Mike is looking at:
-Jonathan Taylor
-Travis Etienne
-Rondale Moore
-JuJu Smith-Schuster
and others!
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Oct 14 2022
22mins
Mike Leone and Adam Rauch of Establish the Run recap last week's GPP action from a game stacking perspective before turning their attention to this week's slate, identifying the best games to stack and why.
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Oct 06 2022
30mins
Mike Leone of Establish The Run adds context to his machine learning algorithm used to identify RBs who should score more points than they have in recent weeks. Last week, Josh Jacobs and Dameon Pierce were identified and broke out. This week, Mike is looking at:
-Joe Mixon
-Dalvin Cook
-James Conner
and others!
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Oct 06 2022
15mins
Mike Leone recaps his Buy Leone model, identifying the big hits and misses from Week 4 and then turns his attention to targets for Week 5:
-Ja'Marr Chase
-Diontae Johnson
-Chris Godwin
-Darren Waller
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Oct 05 2022
19mins